Environment, Society and the Black Death [[electronic resource] ] : An interdisciplinary approach to the late-medieval crisis in Sweden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465813203321
• Autore: Lagerås Per
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Havertown, : Oxbow Books, 2016
• ISBN: 1-78570-055-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.573209485
• Soggetti: Black Death - History - Social aspects - To 1500 - Sweden; Black Death - History - Environmental aspects - Sweden; Black Death - History - Sweden; Crises - History - Sweden; History, Medieval; Plague; Ecology; Social Conditions; History; Socioeconomic Factors; Biology; Earth Sciences; Yersinia Infections; Sociology; Humanities; Population Characteristics; Biological Science Disciplines; Natural Science Disciplines; Enterobacteriaceae Infections; Social Sciences; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections; Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena; Health Care; Disciplines and Occupations; Bacterial Infections; Bacterial Infections and Mycoses; Diseases; Infectious Diseases; Medicine; Health & Biological Sciences; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: An interdisciplinary approach; Chapter 2: Current knowledge on the late-medieval crisis; Chapter 3: Societal crisis and environmental change; Part II: Empirical studies; Chapter 4: Abandonment, agricultural change and ecology; Chapter 5: Change, desertion and survival - an archaeology of the late-medieval crisis; Chapter 6: Living conditions in times of plague; Part III: Conclusions in a wider perspective; Chapter 7: Environment-society interactions; Chapter 8: Studying the late-medieval crisis - reflections on research perspectivesChapter 9: Epidemics in a social context; Chapter 10: Summary of conclusions; References; Author presentations; Appendix 1: Pollen sites; Appendix 2: Osteological stature data; Appendix 3: Isotope data